THE SUNDAY BEE : OMAHA, NOVEMBER ID, 1922.
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ter of it waa away at achool. Thli
office, aa ha explained to hla friend,
wa really where i lived. If ha
wlahed o lavlxh money on It well,
fc had the money to luvlh. '
Tha window hadea war down
now. Hut In day Urn" they com
manded a wide view of fur, clutter
4 roof under a hax of amoka that
thickened until the view waa loet
In it.
A big view, Ilka that from tha
high mountain, whence Hutan
Ml. I tdl tha kingdom of tha earth.
Fur thla particular vlxlt the of
fire hud been aupplled with a whlta
acrecn on a perpendicular ruael
which now lood at tha further and.
From hla "teleacnpo" Krom extract
d a. (tort of mugic lantern, a fold
ing tilpod, aoma photographic plate,
He nnd Hloliiman placed tha mi(lc
lantern, or projecting machine, on
a trlfioil and ndjuxlcd tha creen.
Facing bark from lh? acrcen, Krom
lint o (hair In front of tha tripod.
Inviting Harwood to occupy It. A
brilliant funnel of light aliot out
from the magic lantern, atrlklng (ha
acreen. Krom turned off tha other
light and ant beelde llurwood while
Hfeinninn manipulated tho machine,
Threu atlll plume ware thrown
upon I he M'finn, Tha flrat two were
photograph taken In a park,
allowing frexh mid brilliant natural
color. Jlarwood had cen 'atlll
photograph In natural color be
for", however. It waa the third pic
turo that Inlerealcd him moat,
In hla father' houee, aa In iieur
Ty all other cf reepecting American
home of that period there had been
u tri-ocopc with "view" of Niag
ara Full, tha flrnnd (Anyon, the
capital at Wuxltlngton, and other f-t-rtioux
rne. The contrivance eon.
nlxled of two ''iiure le tinea under a
leather hood which one held to one'
i-yex, A puxlebourd card, contain
ing two duplicate photograph of tha
view, waa put In a movable clip In
front of tha cnca. When one look
ed ft the photograph with the fink
ed eye they were flat, like any pho
tograph, with perBpcctlve, hut with
out depth, Keen through the alere
ocope, however, th picture had
denfh and rouiidnex-i,
lit) waa vaguely aware of the ex
pl-mallon, Normal people have
two eye, o that within a eertaln
limited field of vlxlon they behold
two Hide of an object In relief, like
u tree or a man, A photograph ha
only one eye and give a flat Image,
For xtereoxcope view two photo
graph are taken tt right-eyed on
nnd a Icfttycd one, o to apeak.
When the duplleate Mend, In prop
er foeua under the lenea, one. gel
the effect of depth and roundnex
a though one could walk away hack
Into the picture and fairly look
around tha tree.
Thla third picture had that effect.
It needed no argument to convince
llurwood that If thoae two thing
ould be comhlned In motion pic
ture photography tha frh, vivid
natural color and the atereoneoplc
effect of depth and roundnc, one
would have an invention with which
one could weep the bojtid. In ar
ranging for thin meeting, Krom had
mlii that he und Hteinniiin had auch
an invention at tht tip of their
flnRcri. If that were true, it mc-ief
million,
The littlo ahow belnK over, the
throe men aat down to talk, and
then for tha tlrwt time Jlarwood
really took coK'iizunce of the third
one of the party the dry wlp of a
man with meager, eparaely bearded
fm.-e and noble brow, named Hfeln
mun. Ill manner reminded liar
wood amuHingly of a nervou, fur
tive little animal, nt once eager and
timid. Ho hooked hla heeU on the
runs; of the chair, put hi hand on
hi amull, up thruat knee, litonlng
to Krom' alow utterance with a
kind of (lUaverlnK Intcntne, now
and then breaking in himelf, penk
Iiik with a thick and gutteral fler
man accent; and, If he tried to tell
of the Invention, Immediately run
ning oft Into a technical Jargon that
wa all Orec-k to the luwycr, no that
Krom had to take the talk out of
hla mouth Attain, naylug, with a
tood natured druwl:
" 'Frald Mr. llarwood can't under
atand that, profeaor." And with a
amlle to llarwood- "Hartl for me to
follow It myeelf unlea lt' written
down and I can take my time. The
nub of It 1 that we've got tha In
vention. Wo cun give you motion
picture In natural colors and In re
lief like the atereoavoMP, We know
we've got the principle right,
Working out tho nppni-utu will
take tlin1 mil ht even take live, lx
wek. The wuy I look at It, it'll
cot you a couple of thoiinnd dol
lur at the outxldo, All the profna
aor and I are nuking I grub and a
place to Work In, Then there'll be
Mime material and KmiI. A you
might tiy. you'll gruhatnka II". "
Two (hi-'Uxufu! dollar wit a triv
ial mutter lo Hiirwirfol. Ill mind
waa ruiinliig on lliu Immemt nm1.
bdiio-a t( me h an Invention a
tllifca men pi KinlMit, Already h
knew a rtt U,. xlx-llt 1h llmal
Ide f Oik lo.-tlirti pii-tiiie lii.hmtry
In hi rial xi l .r
"if vuriw, I'nt. hiiiittiMit iletit I
any munev," hnni dm n
pLtintha, prtwuily, lixtkinij anUiiy
t Ik ki)n, tot iiiv -ir, anh lt
coat In It faemad daitd, ao It waa
oddly Ilka being looked at by two
man out of the tome face, "Curiln
knew about him through thla aril
' cle in tha eclentlfifl mugaalna that
I've told you about and aent for
him. Tha profeor didn't know
anything about bulne, either."
He turned gtxni naturrdly lo
Ktelnmun aa ha aald that, then Ian k
to llarwood, and the eobor, rather
drawling ulterunc coiitlniiedi
"Curlin thought he had I hla color
photography for motion picture by
the lull Nome notlona of hi own,
J', ut he aald h didn't have lime lo
work 'em out. Ho ha hlrtd I'rof,
Hlelnrrum." The peuker gave a half
titter, half chuckle. "Thirty dollar
weekl Curlin don't believe In woal
log rnaney. Curlin'a Idea wgan't real
ly any good, you know, The profe.
or and 1 had to work out Idea of
our own,"
Htolnniun broke In tagerly. ";ur
lln'a Idea! My goodne, Mr, llar
wood, he never get anywhere with
(hone idea Jimt tun round In a clr
gle llga dog bit Ha own lall. Mee
now!" fleatleiilatlng, he n-ed off In
to hla technical jargon again until
Krom Mopped him with-
"That' too deep for u, profe
or." Tha Inventor ctckrd bla head lo
one aide and announced whlmelcal
ly, "If too dep for anybody!
" Thoae Idea of (lurlln'a reucb from
top of tha ocean to the bottom and
never get anywhere) lie lnll, you
ace, It' In the ranieral If In the
len! Ha mage great Mg camera
an big!" He at retched hla email
arm to Indicate, "Taga nboud five,
l. aeven picture, one on lop Ihe
o'her to got hi color It gan't b
donel"
"No," Krom Interpoaed, good na
lilrnedly, "It couldn't be done. An
t on Id, tha profeor and I had lo
work out ottr own Idea practical
ly, nut now f'urlln would claim
the Invention outright and give
n a week' pay and the lot, Heerrw
to m that ain't fair." Ife ap
peared to be aubmltllng th point lo
ihe lawyer candidly,
lf hid mentioned A contract e
fore, in their flraf ronvcranllon on
till atlhject, Hnrwoid now nuked,
"Have you a copy of that con
tract?" "I've got the contract llaelf'
nld Krom, "There never wn a
copy. He didn't even give Ihe pro
f"nor a ropy Juat kept the original
lil meet f. You can rend It." il
look a folded document from hi
Inner pocket and handed It lo the
la wyer,
A nucHon naturally ncrurrf to
Harwood to-wlt; how had Krom
gotten hold of thl contract except
by ateallng It? Rut he did not
( hoono lo fli'k the queatlon That
waa rnrlln' affair, Ho rend the
contract,
It waa aklllfully drawn, but part
of lt content wa In technical
term which he could not under
atnnd. The glt of It wa that
t'urlln had evolved tha principle
for making motion picture In na
tural color and with erecop
effect of depth and roundnen.
Hlclnman wa to work out tha de
tail under Curlin' aupervlalon at
nhiry of 130 a week. The Inven
tion when completed w lo belong
ubarlu'ely to Curlin.
I'erhnp, a matter of atricl
legal Interpretation, the conlroct
waa binding, llarwood couldn't ay
(loxltlvelv about that without know
ing mora about the technical elda
of photography. At lenet the con
tract would afford I fine haul for a
lawault over the ownership of the
Invention.
"you ee what It I," Knurl ob
aerved. "Molten, I call It, The pro
feanor hre haa no money and no
bualncfl experience, Curlin pro-fo(-M
to buy him body and aoul
and bnln for $30 a week, and
hog th Invention when It' really
tha profeeeor'a Invention and mine.
Nothing fair about that, I ny or
decent." He eubmlttex that to Har
wood with an air of candid reason
alilenen. "No doubt about It being rotten
enough," Harwood replied.
"Hure!" ald Krom, and reached
for the contract, "That'a what I
told the profeeeor. It' juxt daylight
roblry. NolKxly' bound by a elav
driver bargain like thut,"
The cintraet wu In hi hund
then. Very coolly, aa though the
i aj had been fully argund and de
cided, h tore It Into bit and
dropped the bit Into the waat boa
ket. II then amlled ml-rly at
llarwood and remarked, "And that'
thut, aa they nay,"
Tha lawyer, In fact, wua aoinn
what ahoiked. Hlmply tutrlng up A
legal contract which had probably
Im-oii Klolen In the ttrat plMcowa a
crude method of dlnpoeing of It, Hut
,tftrr all that waa ('tiilin'a iilfair,
not hi.
In lb couraa of the uliuttrr llll
gallon ha had formed hi own
opinion el the liaatibln, pig headid
bitter old raiueia mnkui; and be
knew of KHlio kliiiglng cuMimeiil
which t'uilm had pnd mmn htm,
Tha idea of lb old curiiuidgenn
having Hie table turned uihia him-l.-lf
avea In Ihi rruda funhloii, -rmtv
ainuaed him
Kioto, Uiew big band doan
Ida nt bla bearded fac and ob
erved, with dellberala gravity!
"Wa don't pmptia to have Curiln
hog thla Invention glva u A week'
wag and Hi boot; but when wa
get It dona, If there' anything
owing to him, we'll pay It." That
ha1 the effect of putting tha affair
on a moel honorable baala.
flieliiman alo nodded ijul'-kly and
broke In: "Ifcaa! Mo I ay lo Adolph.
If anything l due, wa will (my.
, . , Me? What I want, Mr Har
wood, I chance lo worg oud thl
Invention eiimo grub, aoma place
lo work In peace, I haf (hi Idea
for loot Ion picture In color now II
year long beforn I know liurlin.
1 worg what I can; but, my good
in nit, a man to nut hf grub, he to net
haf looln, he mux! haf ehob lo worg
In, he lotiet have aom iniilerlal
In ebord, he inuel haf llddl bit of
money, yuml Me? I don'l haf any
liddla bit of money, I worg ixld
and end time, when I can, p
much dlmulvanlage, you c , , ,
I haf thl Idea of plclnre lo relief
e(ereitcopM!veii, eight y re
now. I haf plenty Idee., but, my
goodne, whud cun a man do Willi
uch Idea mile he got llddle bit
of moiiey7 Ho I go with ilurlln."
Il puwed hla beard.
"Hut I don't get peace then, I fa
fx all lime running In, 'Why you
do ihl7 Why you don't do that?'
oil Ihe while iiklng to hla own
foolieh idea-buy,, buy,, It geep
a man dltractd with a dog run
ning In lo harg at blm all lima llge
(toil. I huf thl done year ago if 1
hud peace and iiM to worg In.
Ho 1 ay glf m peace and 4Ull
lo worg In, Mr, llarwood. If Any
thing I due tlurlln we pay, ye?"
"We're JiimI aeklng oyu to gruh
athke u now," Krom reminded him,
It plcoaed llarwood to tnka the
nllitudo of a Kineron patron to
Iheee hard u"d Inventor. "Huipoe
I allow you f-'O a week atdeca for
living cxpermc wbll you'ra work
ing It out?" he Niifi-gcelcd, ainlllng
"Fine!" miU Krom, promptly.
"Fery gencron," Hlelnmnn cow
eurrcd. They talked then of what ehould
bo done with the .Invention, Har
wood nggeled that Ihe beet wV
would m to charge a royally for lb
line i,f l--flV 6 cent for each foot
of film, or 10 cent. They'd have
10 etiidv that over and what the
traffic would bear, Itotli Krom and
Hteinmnn concurred.
1'leMwnnt, haridnjii, In hi luxuri
ou office, II SUM pI'Hxcd Harwood
n be lha ganeroua patron. Hut
there were con Md ration of a
elrlctly buxlnei eort, .
"Vou know how the thing
ofien go," he remarked to Krom,
amiably, "IVinilly ihe Inventor ba
no cnpllnl or bnloe experience
or bnelnee connect ,n, It' a
trie tip Whether eolnebodv'll not get
hi Invention for a eong. I'm al
ready Inlerexled In Ihe motion pic
tore Indimlry, I can fake cflre of nil
tho legal defnll properly. What'
more Important, I'm In a poeltlon
to market thl fhlng to the lat nd
ventage ee that nobody run off
with It, I think I can get a good
deal more out of If than you could
get alone. My ider would be two
third of the roynltle to you and
onefhlrd to me for promoting it
and looking after Ihe legal part and
advancing the capital."
"That ound per fectly teaeonable
to me," eald Krom,
"ye!" enld Weinman.
"I'll draw a contract," Harwood
continued. "Meanwhile you can go
to work a anon a you plea," Ho
amlled re,,y, "V,jUr mMt, w
Klnrt tomorrow,
'from troked hi bearded ' face
(ij-aln, (oiiKldering gravely, and re
plied: "About going lo work we'll
need A place to work In, You ,
Curiln I laid up now, but he end
word he' coming baij to hi of
fice nert week, He'll lie ore.
"We've taken noma of our etuff out
of hi ehop and that contract.
Hldn't M-em any other way to do,
unlee w wa going to lay down
and let him rob u blind. Far' I'm
concerned, I'd tell him to og lo the
devil, lint fha profeeeor here I
nervou. All he want, a he told
you,, In n place where he can work
In peace and nulct. He' nervou
alxiut Curiln."
Hlelnmnn guv one of hi rpiii k
Utile nod and remarked, "He
knock my hnd off If he find me,
A man ean'd do euch work llge
thl when he' got in be thinking
all the while nlmud hi head getting
kniM ked off,"
An Id A occurred lo llurwood:
"I've got A room up here on the
roof l hut j, oil cah wink In. 1 built
It expiclully for a pluce lo get uwuy
to when 1 wunl'-d lo coin" titrate
- b, i nili cava. You can woik
Ibeie, I II ehow It lo you
Tu ruler hi handwiiii piiknj
offun one pnwed ihnnicli nn anil
loom, or t i'lilliet, A ilnn II feel
M(uir liMinboiiie. alMt inli-d with
ekpiiul8 wmmI IjudliiH the wuy
und i ut ti Hi u on tlecirlc luihl a lm
Weill, lluinl i.. nil a dour 111 Ihe
weal wall of Hie anil room or
nbiiirt, The ibxir rv in a miii.ll,
Utre I'einrlit flooird ItkM III Which a
flight -it nnnow Hum eieli aitt in
ih HH.f Another dir in ihix eiair
way hall oiwiod la th pnl.lit' ihu
1 1, -r iMil.lile i .iW i.ffl.tta, but
that door waa lm ked now, Tha
Iron ataira had lawn put there when
th building waa erected for th Ua
of woikinen or janitor who might
have buelficif on lha roof. Original
ly they ended above, In a lit lie
huiih from which on atepped out
on th roof.
llurwood hud Ix-en up there one
day and auddeiily foud hlmat-lf
charmed with the idea of building A
lliiln cabin a retreat up Ihcru on
Him roof, lo willed he could retire
When h Wlahctl lo cecupe the in-cm-unit
Rlream of cnlUi and tele
phone iiiiiliione. lie bad lit rung
ed It with Ihe owneie f the build
ing. Ho now llni oil,, in, 1 1 hutch at
Ihe heud of Ih afair guv 10 A
ehort pueiwig will h led Into hi
ri.tniii, ami It had nmued him to
have Ih retreat built In reem
blance lo a elili' cabin, with round
window five feet above lha floor.
Th room meumired IS feet by 21
fuinlr-bed alao In rtucinliliinc to
a ehlp'N cabin- The vImIIoin looked
around It with eoiini netdnlnliinenl.
"Make A Very good work chop, I
lii. old ay," llui wood lomuienUd.
"you're weloiiie to ue It ua much
on you Ilk,"
In faf, the inldc n notion of thl
reirmt had ulte clninii'-d him, and
with rcNilcaa energy he had ai-t
about getting It coiiNlrucied, atone
going to th owner of the building
for pcruilNNlon, getting an architect
to draw the plan, telling the build
er It iiiud be taken In hand Imme
diately, For a llitbi while ahuiling
hlneejf up here, alone on the top
of the world, delighted him. Hut
Ihe novelty aoon wore threadbare
ua a child with many toy minri loe
Intereat in the neweet. In the hint
12 month he bad apeni burly 12
hour on tha roof, lint now that
he had vleltor who were evidently
ImprcNNcd, he winded to ehow tha
place off.
Janitor and workmen had other
mean of gaining gecee lo the roof,
Neverlhi-leHM, a door had been cut
In lite weet wall of the cabin, Har
wood opened It and led them out to
a viif, atrange view. In the fore,
ground building could be dhtlln
gulehed; i-Uewhera only myriad
Jlfehl and dim hint of i nut oral
elutpe a thout-h Ihe ky had full
r down and they were looking at
the trnnded atar and broken
cloud from a great eb.-vat,n, A
wind blew from the wet, and that,
loo, eeemed interetellar, unearthly,
The weJil of the building roe In
a parapet four feet above (ho roof,
Agaliuit the weat wall, not fur from
the door to Ihe cabin, Mood a pair
of wood' n atepa, Krom climbed
them and looked ahe.cr down the
preclpllou wall, "Look t thl,
profeKor," be Invited; "iltep up
here."
l.Htlo RfeJnmnn climbed the etep.
bent over and looked down. K!gh
teen tor)e lay beneath them, but
dark lien exaggerated the effect of
height; the twinkling light far be
low might have been a deep down
a bell,
A panic NKlod the email Inventor.
Jlo had the actual aenxatlon of
hurtling Immeuaurubly downward
through that apace. In a audden
colhi pg. hi knee knocked togeth
er. The very marrow of hi lionea
aecmed to have a prcvlxlon that it
wa hi fate to fall there. Htortlng
bock from the wall, he atumbled off
the tep. picked hlmeelf up, and
xiti to the cabin door. In the light
that flooded through It both Har
wood and Krom aaw that ha wn
trembling. Krom laughed. Inalde,
tho cuMii KtoitiMian look off hi hat
and wlted hi noble brow with
ehaky finger,
"My goodii!' he gnnM!d. "If
I worg up here I geep that door
Iia-ked, I bed you!" K.vcn Harwood
laughed good na turedly,
A few minute Inter Krom took a
final eurvey of tha room and an
nounced to the lawyer, "It'll be a
flii place for u." That cant in hi
h-ft eye oddly divided hi expre
dloi', yet Hat wood wa aware thut
the man looked at him with admir
ation a at n wizard who, with A
wave of a wand, could produce nug
cabin high In the air.
And at that moment Harwood had
om uch feeling about himelf a
pentratliig und exultant faith In
hi Mint-. If he en Id "Flat!" titer
would be it cabin In Hie iilr. Ha
felt hiiintelf armed and buckh-red, a
familiar of Fortune. For thl af
fair of lh photographic Invention
had f ii lien In pat. Juxt when It wn
lleedml,
He wa the noil of m country cler
gyman who hud f. ii-illy rmlgned
from the mlnlntiy and U-iiinm elect
ed lo cotiKreN. After flushing
law ih itiMil an Introdiii lion lo Joulnh
Cutler t'f Culler, i:ili M.irtlinbile
bud opioid a wldu door of oppor
litttly, lie ha I niniind Culler'
duilKliler, Joeephlnv, Whit lit In r
f.illier'a d-.ltll liiheilti-d ii foitunv
wlilch the it, wniHier gt-u loitvly
extilnulml ill 1 1 oiMi.oo.l, A hi
,t" .I.-..II1 ii -i ! j - . i, - ii -third
imliitil.l. and Iwntliirde n
ti .( for their orilv i l il t. Mu
ll! Me, The foil 'no- Hon lUioilly
fi -.i I nn n ihiiIikii end a iiuiiur,
if tin It I lore liiii.lKd thuti-Mttd
.m , itm!d . li e Iiiiim in
Iikeehor Prlve and the country
place at Oconomowoc,
There had been aoni poor luck.
llarwood had a genteel and ron
aervntlve attitude toward gambling
In etrtck which hi clerical father
would have approved. Hut in or
der to eecur A greater Income h
Bold aoma high clue low Intereet
bonde und Invented In bond und tu-v-era
I new weetern Irrigation project.
HI friend, Ham Holdi ti thought
hleiilv of Ilie prol' ct. Finally
there wn a Ion of 1110,000. A
burned child dread fire, and for
Iwo yenr 1 1, i r wood ht the -nciiil-tie
In Ihe atrong box loue.
'J'lu farm Implement coimollda
tlon, however threehlng machine
and traitor being Ih chief pro
duct wa one of wlilch half a
down experienced and able men of
hi Aci-iuiintnnce t li"ut tit highly of.
The preferred tock would pay a
ateady 7 per cent, whlln the con, toon
tock f,0 elmre of conimnii, n a
bopuw, wllh every 100 luire of pre.
ferred ought canity fo pay i or 10
per cent, HI firm 1, nulled hoiiiq
of the legal dctalle; even canny
Tom Kill, aenlor menih-r of the
firm, went Into It, What better
guide could A man have? Hut the
nnrger went Into bankruptcy, ifm-.
wood'e loe we a hundred und
twenty five thouwind,
Thoae two Hem mode a hole In
tho eetnte which muel be repaired.
In the boom yenr of 1919 any tiling
and everything, It aeemed, wa
bound lo Mieceed, The Inebtlate ulr
of that (Ime naturally affected a
man u eunguinn n llurwood. A
concern whoee b-gnl hiiHlneeM wa
done by Kill, Martlndiile, Harwood
A Hnillh owned, or lnned, eome 30
eiici-Kufiil motion picture Iheaii r
In Chicago and nearby town. That
hiitiinee wa like Ihe mine elmply
coining money with the regularity
of a, machine. The concern formed
a com-olidatlon wllh three oilier of
like nature. In order to control
their raw material, no fo epeiik, tho
coiifolid.il Ion bought the lllllln I'ho
loplny company, which produced
motion picture, Having control i4
the raw material, an even bigger
contact wllh the public wax deeir
able, ao many other motion plciur
theater were bought or leaned nt
viixlly Inflated boom price,
The boom collnpHed, and Hllver
Crown AmiiNcmenl, Inc, momly
colbipacd wllh It, The atock nt pn-a.
tint waa occnxlonnlly traded In on
tho curb at five cent to the dollar,
Harwood had (400,000 Invented In
It, A affair etood, hi ahure of
tho r-ntate wn Ulte gone, and bla
daughter' alio re for which ho wa
accountable n trUMlee wa more
than half none.
The eituatlon might hive ben
d'-Hpcrate. liut when I.ctltlu ltd
knap widow of Arthur liclknup,
landlord and renl cntn(e operator
returned from tho ftcanhnre nnd
Iiiox In the coming fall her i-n-gagement
to Nathaniel H-irwood
waa to be Announced. Her fortune
wu not lee than (10,000,000 In real
money, Harwood Mtlll believed in
hi xtur.
That, roughly waa the juncture of
affair when hi motion picture In
vention fell In pat. Jlarwood had
not the allghteat Idea of treating tho
Inventor otherwhte than mont hon
orably and generouxly. They ehould
have two-third of the royulile.
Hut hi mind wa already running
eagorly to the formation of a com
pony which would control the com.
pnny, Wllh euch a lever In hi
hand Silver Crown AmuHemenl.
Inc., would quickly nxcend lha
. precipice down which It had fallen.
If thet-,0 two odd, ahnhby chap
could give him a potent on motion
picture In vivid natural colore and
In relief well, he'd look out for the
rext.
Juxt two odd, ahubby chap and
three mill photograph that waa
all ho had ho far. Hut he felt In hla
lame that they were going to give
him what they promlxed. At leant
he could well nfford to rlk a couple
of thotiHond dollar on the venture.
In the llghtcet, moxt cnminl way,
he He vera! time tluillght of pig
headed, mleerly, rldlculou old HI
rnon Curiln, the camera maker
whoxo contract, probably, hud been
Ntolen and whoee Hf-hlx may have .
been xllghled In other reepecta.
Hut he thought of Curlin only with
a xmlle of amuneinent. The iund
of tti-Kh old curmudgeon might look
out for hiiiiKelf.
Krom nnd Hti-lnniiiii look poexi-a-xlon
of the roof room, coming and
going Ihiouf-h tha mile room, or
iiiblint. In front of Harwood'a
ofhce. Hut a difficulty nt once ih.
velop.-d it Krom gtxid iialuredly
explained. The nu'-er, lluild old
"piiifcaxni-" wax iiertiiux all Ihe
lime, iihtiexwd by A fixil idea I hat
i 'in lm wu going to pop tlnou;h
I In- door and throw him off the
roof lb) Wanti-d III gel nit of
town -i.ioi )ien-; and Krom really
thought llnvl would be nun Ii l.uit r,
for linn Die old mail imild Vep hi
t. nn, I on ihe wink In hxml
II.iIWoihI oi.i I-!, l d llotl too
no I, I gixul inttiiKtlly iiiul I, ml ,i ao
I nt Ion;
"All I i lil " he xaid "I II tuka
him op lo ili-w Hum nice iuit
. oiiniif low n I livid tlo it- f, r rv
rial n wh. n I toy. I
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